One of the questions that I hear the most while I’m actually doing a job is about the “dent board”.  We use a suction cup to hang this plastic board to the car.  In and of itself, it does nothing.  It is not  actually “doing” anything.  We use the black stripe on the board as a constant reflection that  we see while we look at the dent.  When I am repairing a dent, I am looking at the dent, but I am seeing the reflection of the stripe on the board in the shiny paint of the dent.  (As a side note, I cannot repair dents on paint that has no shine!)  You can imagine that as the metal is bending out from the pressure I am applying with my dent tool, the reflection of the stripe would be bending along with it.  I use this bending reflection to tell me where my tool tip is.  (my tool is behind the metal, pushing outward, so I can’t actually see the tool tip).

The only other use for the dent board is to use one of them as a shade-board.  Sometimes I use two boards, one as described above, and one to put shade on the dent itself, in sunny conditions.  This enhances my ability to see the dent and my tool tip behind the dent. Call us for atlanta dent removal !